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Galileo Search and Rescue
Test Beacon (SAR-TB) - Ongoing
Ursa Minor is currently developing the SAR-TB in the Galileo
Test User Segment. With the company responsible for both design and
implementation, the SAR-TB is a highly accurate and versatile user
terminal enabling two-way communications with Galileo. Read More... |
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GPS Signal Generator
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Ongoing
With support from ESA's European Space Incubator, Ursa Minor
is developing this spin-off commercial product from technology
developed for the Galileo SAR-TB. Read More... |
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Cospas Sarsat Marine
Distress Beacon Test & Verification Facility
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Ongoing
With support from ESA's European Space Incubator, the company
is using verification and test tools developed for our Galileo SAR-TB
project as a basis for a facility providing Cospas Sarsat approval
services to commercial distress beacon manufacturers and other test
facilities. Read
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Noodbakens.nl
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Ongoing
Ursa Minor's daughter company is a reseller of marine distress beacons.
Aside from commercial return, the business provides Ursa Minor with a
direct link to manufacturers and an overview of this user market. Go to the Noodbakens
website...
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Multi-modal
Tracking and Tracing System (MTTS) -
Completed
MTTS aims to provide enhanced situational awareness to both marine
leisure vessel users and rescue control centres, as well as 2-way
multi-modal emergency communications between them. It is an integrated
application envisioning the use of multiple existing and planned space
and terrestrial infrastructure, particularly the RLM functionality of
Galileo. A service demonstrator has been implemented. Read More... |
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Environmental
Distress Demonstrator (EDD) - Completed
EDD is a location based service aimed at providing enhanced drift
predictions of objects adrift at sea for rescue services. Novel use of
nowcast and forecast data based on real-time earth observation
satellite data is used to provide enhanced automated drift prediction.
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MARUSE
- Completed
Ursa Minor participated in the MARUSE consortium led by Kongsberg
Seatex funded by the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) researching
possible applications enabled by the introduction of evolved GNSS in
the Maritime environment. Ursa Minor has been responsible for
researching possibilities for exploiting Galileo’s “Return Link Message
Service" and alternative Return Link Message sources plus their
implementation in the Maritime User Terminal. A variation on the
identified architectures were implemented in a service demonstrator
during the EDD project. Go to the MARUSE website... |
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Galileo
Search & Rescue Baseline - Completed
Under contract with
the European Space Agency (ESA) a new baseline for the SAR/Galileo
system was
developed. This new baseline dramatically decreased the projected costs
of the
ground segment. This reduction of costs was achieved using existing
designs for
the User Terminal combined with an improved and patented algorithm. |
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Galileo
Ground Support Equipment - Completed
Under sub-contract of Indra Espacio, Ursa Minor was
responsible for the design of the Return Link Message Generator (RLMG)
and the
Cospas-Sarsat Network Emulator (CSNE) for the Galileo Ground Support
Equipment.
The RLMG generates SAR Return Link Messages (RLM) and sends them to the
Galileo
Mission Segment for uplink to the Galileo satellites, which disseminate
the
RLMs to SAR Beacons worldwide.
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Galileo
Search and Rescue Simulator - Completed
Ursa Minor has developed the Galileo Search and Rescue Simulator
(GSARS). With this simulator the performance of SAR/Galileo can be
analyzed. The GSARS simulates the SAR/Galileo system. It includes
simulation of the:
- Signal transmitted by a COSPAS-SARSAT or SAR/Galileo
emergency beacon
- Propagation of this signal through the atmosphere,
taking atmospheric delay and attenuation effects into account
- Reception, frequency translation and amplification of
the signal by the satellites (Galileo and GPS)
- Reception of the relayed echoes by the SAR/Galileo
ground stations (MEOLUTs)
- Localization of the emergency beacon
- Performance determination
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S@tMax
- Completed
The company has studied the market and technical opportunities of
providing two-way data communication to cars in the United States as
part of a collaborative academic exercise. The S@tMax concept combines
a terrestrial infrastucture of WiMAX towers with geostationary
satellites to provide a wide range of telematics services to US
automobiles. Studies showed that such an architecture was feasible and
one of the largest car manufacturers in the US is considering the
implementation of a similar system. |
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